Workmen's advocate., 1887-04-02


 plaster a house on East street refused to work because the lathing had been done by non.union men. and the consequence was the Iaths had to be torn down, and the work done over again by union men, Bravo, This is as it should be, and the day is not far distant when every man who earns an honest living will have to be inside of some labor organization, and rats and scabs will be found only in mu- seums, just as mummies, fossils and other curiosites are.
 The boss builders declare they will prosecute for conspiracy and intimida- ton every union man that may inter- fere with their right to employ scabs or make any other encroachment, on the rights of honest, organized labor. This is bold threat; but it will not scare the tolers. They are used to such wind bombs, and the men who desire to take all and give to their slaves only enough to procure Beecher's det-bread and water. If those "bosses' prepare for themselves a volcano, no honest man will shed a tear if they fall into it..
 There is an old sea captain in Fair Haven who has offered to reward cer- tain builder very handsomely if he would agree to hire no Knight of Labor or trades unionist. His anmosity has been caused by his vessel being delayed sixteen days in New York during the recent strike in that city. What a bitter fool must this old salt be to try to have re- verge upon the wage workers of New York by injuring those in New Haven. But the old fogy is behind the age--he must move with the world, or he'll find himself sailing up "salt creek" one of these fine days.
 The directors of the Consolidated road have voted to do away with free passes from point in one State to a point in another. except such as are held by off cers and employees of the road, or by off cer4 of other companies in exchange. We are glad that at last one of the great est railroad monopolies in the country has been forced to acknowledge that the much-abused labor men who have fought against the corruption of our legislators by free passes, were right, We know we were right; we know we are still right, and we wish the enemies of the people to take notice that we will never give up the fight until every wrong, po- litical and social has been removed from this broad land.
 New Haven has one of the most econ omical boards of education to be found in any of the States~~so economical that il puts up school houses without giving the slightest consideration to those sani- tary precautions that are so necessary to the health, moral and physical, of the children whose parents bear the expense incurred in in running the schools. Now, such carelessness must be stopped. and we hope the people throughout the land will see that less money be squandered by the frequent changes made in the text books used in the schools for the benefit of some favorite publisher, while more attention is given to the health and com fort of the children who are shut up from the air and sunshine so many hours each day.
 The old party heelers believe the only way to demoralize the labor party is to divide it's numbers. The first step to be taken in this direction is to start d new labor party, and to do this the party bosses will have the aid of so-called labor reformers' who are now ready to pose as the faithful friends of the op- pressed wage-worker, just as some of that ilk did in the Fourth Ward of this city at our last State election. But we have no cause to fear that they will be able to injure the new political move ment by hood winkng any large number of the men who have rallied round Iabor's banner. A few months ago we found it necessary to expose some fraud ulent "labor retormers,' and, if required we will most gladly do it again, We know those tricksters, and are fully con- vinced they are in the labor movement only for speculative purposes.